This Thursday, Nov. 3, 2005 file photo shows the runway and control tower of the airport in Szymany, in northeastern Poland. (AP Photo, File)

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Polish prosecutors intend to look into a Washington Post report alleging that the CIA in 2003 handed Polish intelligence agents two cardboard boxes stuffed with $15 million in cash as a payoff to use a Polish facility as perhaps the agency's most infamous "black site" prison. The report could be explosive, because if Polish officials did cooperate with the CIA, they could be prosecuted, as could politicians who were in power at the time. A prosecution spokesperson tells Reuters that the report will be analyzed for new evidence. Human rights groups say prosecutors already have evidence of Polish officials' involvement with the black site, but have held off on charges for fear of political repercussions. Officially, Poland denies that the secret jail ever existed.

The Post provides a detailed report on the origins of the site, a two-story villa on a Polish intelligence service training base that the CIA secured to replace a site it was using in Thailand (that one described by one former agency official as "just a chicken coop we remodeled"). Polish officials continued to visit the site's common lunch room, but didn't have access to the detainees. The report also details the interrogation and torture of Abu Zubaida (who proved eager to help), Khaleid Sheikh Mohammed (who was very hard to break), and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri (whom interrogators quarreled about, with some convinced he was a major terror figure, and others believing he was "an idiot" who "couldn't read or comprehend a comic book.") Read the Post's full report here.

Now you see why the CIA wants to murder Snowden and has smeared Manning. These spooks are the ones that lawfully should face a hang mans noose and they know it, but they fear we might know it to with the secrets Snowden and others have. The Drone, the invasion, the war on terror is a cover up of all of the cold war hijinks and outrage. If moral people had the power to punish the agency heads for there crimes, there would be many of them hanging from gallows. It would include all of the Presidents since beginning of WII right up to the present. But lucky for them anyone that could touch them is just as dirty as they are. They just hate people knowing the truth even if we are powerless to hang them all. They like it better when we worship them while the bath in our mis placed honor of them . Some of them might actually believe there own BS. Just like the mothers that have murdered there unborn are full of pride and admiration for themselves and encourage others to follow in there foot steps.

julianpenrod

Jan 24, 2014 12:34 PM CST

Among other things, the same old lies by the propaganda choir. drew7282, for example, opines, “Let's not forget, we would have many more victims if certain action would not be taken.” Where is drew7282's proof that it was “Islamists” or “al Qaeda” that carried out the events of September 11 and not Larry Silverstein, the owner of the entire World Trade Center site who knew that the buildings were not aging well with shoddy materials and who saw this as a way to stage a cheap disguised demolition without the need to follow the laws, as long as the government and the “news”, two parts of the New World Order, played along? Where is drew7282's proof that there would have been more attacks by “Islamists” or “al Qaeda” if there had been no murderous reprisal? Drew7282 won't answer, they may reply with vitriol, contempt and ridicule, but they will not answer. And for all the bloodthirsty posturing by dullards who relish the idea of having an approved “enemy” to hate, to take their mind off the fact that they are total and complete failures in life, remember that endorsing violence and brutality, even in response to wrongdoing, is dangerous. Because, among other things, the fact of the matter is that Islamist populations were victims of Western cravenness and malignance long before September 11! CIA/Mossad/MI-5 targeted assassinations, destabilizations of local populations, fomenting of clan warfare. The U.S. installing corporate friendly dictator General Suharto, responsible for more murders during his administration than all the claimed “terrorist” attacks before and after September 11, for example, in Indonesia. Or the corporate friendly Reza Pahlavi in Iran, who created the bloody and murderous SAVAK secret police, among other things. The evidence is that Islamists did not cause September 11, or many of the incidents since then, but, if paying blood with blood is so attractive to so many, they should remember that they are justifying those whose families were butchered so Western clothes manufacturers could force people to work in sweatshops like the one in Bangladesh that collapsed killing hundreds also have the right to mete out reprisal. No shill for the New World Order's ploy to instill universal fear and an everlasting “war” to enslave humanity will answer this, either. But the question still stands, why do we even have to go through this. Why engage in practices that are at odds with our supposed principles to stay safe? Why is all this happening now? Before September 11, there was no incidence of “terrorism” as since that date. There may have been random, odd, minor events, widely scattered, but not the rapid fire staccato of major, high profile incidents since then. Madrid, London, Mumbai, Ft. Hood, Rafik Hariri, Benazir Bhutto, the “underwear bomber”, the “show bomber”, the “Times Square bomber”, the Sears Tower plot, the Ft. Dix plot. More than a century's worth of events in the space of a decade! What were we doing right before September 11 that we didn't have these kind of events then? Why wasn't there a constant overt supposed “threat” of bombers at every Olympics? The technology was the same before September 11. The supposed hatred of the U.S. was there. Why didn't they pull these events before September 11? Quislings for the New World Order, the true source of the “terrorist” events used to create the “war on 'terror'”, won't answer this, either!